The cultural and political activities of the Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) made him known in the Soviet Union as the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.Maxim Gorky, whose re...
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Maksim Gor'ky initially achieved renown as a short-story writer and went on to become a prominent novelist, dramatist, and memoirist. During his career, which straddled the final decades of the old Ru...
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Critical Essay by Prince D. S. Mirsky
"Maxim Gorky," in Contemporary Russian Literature 1881-1925, Alfred A. Knopf, Reprint, 1972, pp. 106-20.
In the following excerpt, originally publis...
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Critical Essay by Julian W. Connolly
"The Russian Short Story 1880-1917," in The Russian Short Story: A Critical History, edited by Charles A. Moser, Twayne Publishers, 1986, pp. 103-46....
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Critical Essay by Edward J. Brown
"The Symbolist Contamination of Gor'kii's 'Realistic' Style," in Slavic Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer, 1988, pp. 227-38.
In...
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Critical Essay by Barry P. Scherr
"Literary Beginnings: The Short Story," in Maxim Gorky, Twayne Publishers, 1988, pp. 21-36.
In the following essay, Scherr offers a thematic and stylist...
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Critical Review by Elizabeth Bowen
"Gorky Stories," in Collected Impressions, Alfred A. Knopf, 1950, pp. 153-56.
In the following review, originally published in 1939, Bowen presents a b...
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Critical Essay by George Lukács
"The Human Comedy of Pre-Revolutionary Russia," in Studies in European Realism: A Sociological Survey of the Writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, To...
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Critical Essay by Marc Slonim
"Gorky," in Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present, Oxford University Press, 1953, pp. 125-52.
In the following excerpt, Slonim surveys the s...
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Critical Essay by Richard Hare
"The Lure of the Vagabond," in Maxim Gorky: Romantic Realist and Conservative Revolutionary, Greenwood Press, 1962, pp. 25-37.
In the following essay, Hare...
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Critical Essay by F. M. Borras
"The Short Story," in Maxim Gorky the Writer, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 59-94.
In the following essay, Borras studies the range of Gorky's ...
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Critical Essay by Jeffrey Bartkovich
"Maxim Gorky's Twenty-six Men and a Girl': The Destruction of an Illusion," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. X, No. 3, Summer, 1973, p...
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Critical Essay by L. Michael O'Toole
"Plot, Pushkin: 'The Pistol Shot,' Gorky: Twenty-six Men and a Girl'," in Structure, Style and Interpretation in the Russ...
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Critical Essay by George J. Gutsche
"Gor'kii's 'Twenty-six and One'," in Moral Apostasy in Russian Literature, Northern Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 9...
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Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
